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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2026-09-23 09:37:21 -0700
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KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migrationgrafted
Manually perform cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migration to ensure no stale data is left in CPU caches after the VM is destroyed. Because the source VM is "converted" to a non-SEV VM, KVM's memory reclaim flows won't trigger cache maintenance, e.g. when all guest memory is reclaimed in response to detaching from the mmu_notifier. Note, relying on the destination VM to do cache maintenance isn't an option as KVM doesn't require identical guest memory configurations, i.e. the source VM may have access to memory that the destination VM does not. Enforcing equivalent memory configurations is infeasible, as it would require a *deep* comparison of memslots, e.g. to verify that not only are the memslot identical, but what the memslots point at is also identical. Fixes: b56639318bb2 ("KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20260923163721.1584779-3-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ (X = CPU number)
+
+ Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions
+ detected by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a
+ machine check (often with panic), corrected ones cause a
+ machine check log entry.
+
+ For more details about the x86 machine check architecture
+ see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their
+ developer websites.
+
+ For more details about the architecture
+ see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf
+
+ Each CPU has its own directory.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/bank<Y>
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ (Y bank number)
+
+ 64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for
+ bank Y.
+
+ When a bit in the bitmask is zero then the respective
+ subevent will not be reported.
+
+ By default all events are enabled.
+
+ Note that BIOS maintain another mask to disable specific events
+ per bank. This is not visible here
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/check_interval
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+ between all CPUs.
+
+ How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in
+ seconds (Note output is hexadecimal). Default 5 minutes.
+ When the poller finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup
+ (poll more often) on the polling interval. When the poller
+ stops finding MCEs, it triggers an exponential backoff
+ (poll less often) on the polling interval. The check_interval
+ variable is both the initial and maximum polling interval.
+ 0 means no polling for corrected machine check errors
+ (but some corrected errors might be still reported
+ in other ways)
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/trigger
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+ between all CPUs.
+
+ Program to run when a machine check event is detected.
+ This is an alternative to running mcelog regularly from cron
+ and allows to detect events faster.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/monarch_timeout
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ How long to wait for the other CPUs to machine check too on a
+ exception. 0 to disable waiting for other CPUs.
+
+ Unit: us
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/ignore_ce
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables polling and CMCI for corrected errors.
+ All corrected events are not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/dont_log_ce
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables logging for corrected errors.
+ All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
+
+ This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
+ errors.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/cmci_disabled
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables the CMCI feature.